About the Authors

He Huang

Current address: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Marcel Quint

Current address: Department of Molecular Signal Processing, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

William M. Gray

grayx051@umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH MQ WMG. Performed the experiments: HH MQ WMG. Analyzed the data: HH MQ WMG. Wrote the paper: HH WMG.